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  • Do we need a treaty on neutrality?

    Source: Responsible Statecraft
    by Naman Karl-Thomas Habtom

    “In an era of widespread use of economic sanctions, dual-use technology exports, and hybrid warfare, the boundary between peacetime and wartime has become increasingly blurry. Yet understandings of neutrality remain stuck in the time of trench warfare. An updated conception of neutrality, codified through an international treaty, is necessary for global security. Neutrality in the 21st century is often whatever a country wants it to be.” (09/15/25)

    https://responsiblestatecraft.org/neutrality-treaty/

  • The Warmonger Rebrand

    Source: Liberal Currents
    by Joseph Stieb

    “On September 5, President Trump issued an executive order rebranding the Department of Defense as the ‘Department of War.’ The order boasted that the U.S. military is ‘the strongest and most lethal fighting force in the world’ and that this department ‘should have a name that reflects its unmatched power and readiness to protect national interests.’ He bizarrely ranted that since Congress consolidated the War Department and the Department of the Navy as the DoD in 1949 that the United States ‘never fought to win’ in the interceding wars. Oddly, Trump’s renaming has attracted support from many analysts and politicians who want a more restrained, less militarized foreign policy. They include both Buchananite nationalist conservatives, leftist commentators, and some mainstream outlets.” (09/15/25)

    https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-warmonger-rebrand/

  • To Protect Ukraine, Keep It out of NATO

    Source: The American Conservative
    by Ted Snider

    “The war in Ukraine is heading to its inevitable conclusion. It may still take many months, but Russia will win the war on the battlefield, and Ukraine will be without some of its territory and without NATO membership. In such a situation, Kiev has every incentive to make a deal rather than wait for crushing defeat. There is no doubt that Ukraine will require reliable security guarantees …. While Kiev would like its security guarantee to come in the form of NATO membership, the most important guarantee of its future security is the opposite: a credible commitment from Kiev and from NATO that Ukraine will remain neutral and never join the Western alliance.” [editor’s note: Snider seems to think that if he just keeps proclaiming Russian “victory” is inevitable, it will magically come true. And there is not and never was any chance Ukraine would be allowed to join NATO – TLK] (09/15/25)

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/to-protect-ukraine-keep-it-out-of-nato/

  • The Marshall Plan for the Mind

    Source: Law & Liberty
    by Henry T Edmonson III

    “How much did the CIA book program contribute to the fall of the Soviet Union?” (09/15/25)

    https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-marshall-plan-for-the-mind/

  • Quantum Vibe, 09/15/25

    Source: Big Head Press
    by Scott Bieser

    Cartoon. (09/15/25)

    https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2552

  • How the Trump tariffs boomerang to hurt US winemakers

    Source: Washington Post
    by Kevin D Williamson

    “Owning a vineyard in Napa Valley sounds fancy, but the wine business is, in reality, pretty gritty: It is a low-margin agricultural and food-processing business that is, on top of everything else, highly regulated. Now the Trump administration is threatening to make things a good deal worse by throwing a hand grenade into the U.S. wine industry’s supply chains and distribution networks in the form of tariffs that are meant, in theory, to protect domestic producers from overseas competition. Unfortunately, the wine industry doesn’t work the way Washington seems to think it does.” (09/14/25)

    https://archive.is/EU533

  • Why Did Feds Ignore Epstein’s Financial Crime Wave?

    Source: JimBovard.com
    by James Bovard

    “JPMorgan helped Jeffrey Epstein commit thousands of federal banking-law violations, per a bombshell New York Times report. Federal regulators perpetually ignored endless red flags of Epstein’s multimillion-dollar child-sex-trafficking operations. Federal money-laundering law requires banks to file a report for each cash transaction exceeding $10,000. Epstein was pulling out $800,000 in cash each year, ‘much of which was used to procure girls and young women,’ the Times details. Shortly after Epstein’s death in a New York prison cell, in late 2019, JPMorgan ‘filed a report with federal regulators that retroactively flagged as suspicious some 4,700 Epstein transactions — totaling more than $1.1 billion.’ … Ironically, during Epstein’s financial crime spree, the Internal Revenue Service was wreaking havoc on hapless small businesses for violating the same law.” (09/14/25)

    https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/09/14/feds-ignored-epstein-crime-wave/

  • Corrupt “Democracy” Makes Fascism Inevitable

    Source: exile in happy valley
    by Nicky Reid

    “[E]ven though Donald Trump has become an unprecedented threat who needs to be stopped, his mainstream ‘resistance’ funded by neocon Never Trumpers and the neoliberal DNC need to be thrown out with him for making his reign of terror possible by being only marginally less despotic than Orange-Man-Bad while daring to call their proto-fascistic shell game woke. This has happened before. In fact, this is precisely how the original Hitler ended up in power.” (09/14/25)

    https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/09/corrupt-democracy-makes-fascism.html

  • Is the Lack of “Friction” in Our Virtual World Leading to Liberalism’s Decline?

    Source: The UnPopulist
    by JL Wall

    “Our rapid-fire communication technologies may be overwhelming our capacity to deliberate and empathize, two new books suggest.” (09/14/25)

    https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/is-the-lack-of-friction-in-our-virtual

  • Liberal-Anarchism

    Source: Center for a Stateless Society
    by Wesley Whitman

    “Liberalism, properly understood, is not merely a justification for free markets or negative liberty. It is, at root, a philosophy of emancipation. Likewise, anarchism is not chaos, but the pursuit of a voluntary and non-dominating social order. When joined together and viewed through a dialectical libertarian lens, these traditions give birth to what I call liberal-anarchism.” (09/14/25)

    https://c4ss.org/content/60717